[Rd] Building package with R 2.6.0 on Windows/Cygwin gives error with tar
Prof Brian Ripley
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Fri Oct 5 14:19:01 CEST 2007
Try setting TAR to 'tar --force-local'.
This should be the default under Windows, but a typo was introduced in R
2.6.0 after it was tested.
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Kevin Wright wrote:
> My setup:
> Windows XP, R-2.6.0, Cygwin (not the Rtools version)
>
> When I tried to build a package, I was given this message:
> tar: c\:/X/Rpkgs/Drydown_1.41.tar: Cannot open: Input/Output error
>
> Even manually typing the following caused the same error:
> tar chf 'c:/X/Rpkgs/Drydown_1.41.tar' Drydown
>
> I looked at the 2.5.1 and 2.6.0 build scripts. After restoring this
> section to the 2.6.0 build script:
> ## workaround for paths in Cygwin tar
> $filepath =~ s+^([A-Za-z]):+/cygdrive/\1+;
> }
> then $filepath evaluates to
> /cygdrive/c/X/Rpkgs/Drydown_1.41.tar
> and I was able to build packages again.
>
> (Posted in case someone else has the same problem and/or finds this useful.)
It WOULD have been useful if you had tested in the alpha/beta/RC period
and not immediately after release. (I believe this has been asked of you
before.)
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